Shevirah in the Media

Our Team

Georgia Weidman, Founder/CTO

Shevirah founder and CTO Georgia Weidman is a serial entrepreneur, penetration tester, security researcher, speaker, trainer, and author. She holds a MS in computer science as well as holding CISSP, CEH, and OSCP certifications. Her work in the field of smartphone exploitation has been featured internationally in print and on television. She has provided training at conferences such as Blackhat USA, Brucon, and CanSecWest. Georgia founded Bulb Security LLC, a security consulting firm specializing in security assessments/penetration testing, security training, and research/development. She was awarded a DARPA Cyber Fast Track grant to continue her work in mobile device security culminating in the release of the open source project the Smartphone Pentest Framework (SPF). She founded Shevirah Inc. to create product solutions for assessing and managing the risk of mobile devices in the enterprise and testing the effectiveness of enterprise mobility management solutions and is a graduate of the Mach37 cybersecurity accelerator. She is the author of Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking from No Starch Press. She was the recipient of the 2015 Women’s Society of CyberJutsu Pentest Ninja award. She is on the board of advisors of the angel backed security training startup Cybrary and the nonprofit Digital Citizens Alliance. See Georgia’s past and upcoming appearances.

Michael W. Wellman, Director/Advisor

Michael W. Wellman is the CEO and co-founder of Virgil Security. Virgil delivers cryptographic “building blocks” to software developers around the world enabling them to quickly and easily build passwordless authentication, encryption, and other cryptographic functionality into their products without their having to become security experts themselves.

Some of Michael’s previous products include early commercial Internet software, Apple’s eWorld web browser, AOL’s Macintosh web browser, the first two generations of Apple’s Airport, and other market-defining Wi-Fi products. Michael has also led DARPA-funded research and development projects in Cognitive Radios, Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA), mobile ad hoc networks (MANET), and MIMO. He is a mentor at the Mach37 cybersecurity accelerator and the RelevantHealth.md health tech accelerator, an advisor to cybersecurity startups NS8, Shevirah, and ThreatCare, and a Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners.

Peter Laitin, Advisor

Peter is co-founder of Washington D.C. based cybersecurity startups 202 Partners and RunSafe Security. Two decades of Federal IT sales has made Peter a well-known go-to person in the areas of cybersecurity, mobility and IoT around the 495-loop, representing companies like RSA (acquired by Dell), Verisign, Invincea (acquired by Sophos), Good (acquired by Blackberry), Thursby Software and Kaprica Security (acquired by Samsung). Peter is a native Washingtonian with an established federal and private network with a proven track record in some of the most notable IT security and mobility deployments in the federal government, including DISA, USDA and the FBI.

He is a second generation DC insider, beginning his career by interning for the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, following in the footsteps of his father Joe Laitin who served 18 years in government under five presidents, beginning as a Whitehouse Press Secretary. Peter holds BA degrees in Public Relations & Marketing from Ashford University, as well as Political Science & Government from Indiana University Bloomington.

Simon Hartley, Advisor

Simon is an expert in cybersecurity, mobility and IoT, co-founder of Washington DC-based cybersecurity startup RunSafe Security. He is a member of the SAE’s IoT Cybersecurity Committee and a contributing author in their new book “Cybersecurity for Commercial Vehicles“. RunSafe was developed as part of DARPA’s program of cybersecurity for DoD vehicles, drones and medical devices. Simon also worked with Apple and Samsung in hardening their mobile devices for government use.

Previously, he was VP of Sales at Kaprica Security (acquired by Samsung), Mobile Program Director, DMI, market leader in managed mobility and Sales Director at Thursby Software, market leader in Apple security. Prior executive roles include Red Hat, HP, Capgemini, a $9B hedge fund, a $50MM dot com and a background in nuclear software engineering. He holds a BS in Physics from U-Manchester, a MS in Law & Cybersecurity from U-Maryland Carey Law, CISSP, CEH and CIPP/US.

Monique Morrow, Advisor

Monique was Cisco’s CTO/Evangelist for New Frontiers Development and Engineering as well as Cisco’s first CTO Services. Monique is a technology strategist and is focused on the intersections of Blockchain, cybersecurity, digital identity, ethical computing, and IoT/mobile. She is currently the co-founder of The Humanized Internet, an Associated Researcher with the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, and an Advisor at the Rising Star Cybersecurity Accelerator and to Procivis AG and VALID. Among Monique’s numerous accolades, she was the 2017 recipient of the DECA International Entrepreneurial Spirit Award, Business Worldwide Magazine’s 2016 Visionary of the Year for Technology, Social Change and Ethics, and has been named a Top Ten Influential IT Women in Europe.

Gaige Paulsen, Advisor

Gaige B. Paulsen is the CTO of Haste and an experienced entrepreneur. Haste specializes in improving network performance for interactive experiences. Over the past three decades, he’s guided technical and business decisions for a variety of technology and internet-focused businesses. Gaige has experience in all phases of business, from founding through growth and sale. His technical experience is focused on internet technologies from low-level protocol and embedded systems development to facilities-based internet service providers. He advises a number of companies, including Shevirah, Virgil Security, AIS Network, and Storybook.

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